Community Services Administration

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. a former independent agency (abolished 1981) that helped low-income persons attain economic self-sufficiency. : CSA

Example Sentences

Congress abolished the Community Services Administration in 1981 and folded its functions into the Department of Health and Human Services, a closure faulted by congressional auditors as poorly handled.

From Washington Post

Community Services Administration, an assistant in the White House personnel office, administrator of Food and Nutrition Services at the Department of Agriculture and, from 1994 until 2014, chairman of the United Black Fund.

From Washington Post

Community Services Administration, an assistant in the White House personnel office, administrator of Food and Nutrition Services at the Department of Agriculture and, from 1994 until 2014, chairman of the United Black Fund.

From Washington Post

But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new regulations were closely scrutinized at the Food Research and Action Center, a Washington-based public interest law firm and consumer watchdog that got much of its money from the first federal agency abolished by Reagan, the Community Services Administration.

From Time Magazine Archive